May Robson
Granny Get Your Gun (1940)
Granny Get Your Gun is a 1940 American comedy western film directed by George Amy and written by Kenneth Gamet. The film stars May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans and Clay Clement. It is based primarily on supporting characters found in the 1937 Perry Mason novel The Case of the Dangerous Dowager. The film wa...
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Lewis Stone•Bessie Love
They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the film The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933). The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia. Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Flora Finch•Harrison Ford•Leatrice Joy•Phyllis Haver•Carole Lombard
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenplay was adapted by Dudley Nichols a...
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Victor Varconi•Rudolph Schildkraut
Woman in Distress (1937)
Woman in Distress is a 1937 American crime film directed by Lynn Shores and written by Albert DeMond. The film stars May Robson, Irene Hervey, Dean Jagger, Douglass Dumbrille, George McKay and Gene Morgan. The film was released on January 17, 1937, by Columbia Pictures.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Fay Wray
The Captain's Kid (1936)
The Captain's Kid is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Tom Reed. The film stars May Robson, Sybil Jason, Guy Kibbee, Jane Bryan, Fred Lawrence and Dick Purcell. The film was released by Warner Bros. on November 14, 1936.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Mitzi Green•Charles Butterworth
Rainbow on the River (1936)
Rainbow on the River is a 1936 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann from a screenplay by Harry Chandlee, Earle Snell, and William Hurlbut, based upon the novel Toinette's Philip by C. V. Jamison. Produced by Bobby Breen Productions and Principal Productions, the movie was premiered in New York City on December 17, 1936, and released natio...
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Cary Grant•Guy Kibbee
Grand Old Girl (1935)
Grand Old Girl is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Robertson from a screenplay by Milton Krims, John Twist, Arthur T. Horman, adapted from a story by Wanda Tuchock. The film stars May Robson, Mary Carlisle, Fred MacMurray, and Alan Hale, other cast members included Ben Alexander.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Franchot Tone•Claude Rains
Strangers All (1935)
Strangers All is a 1935 American drama film directed by Charles Vidor from a screenplay by Milton Krims. The film stars May Robson and Preston Foster, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures on April 26, 1935.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Jean Parker
Three Kids and a Queen (1935)
Three Kids and a Queen is a 1935 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig, written by Samuel Ornitz and Barry Trivers, and starring May Robson, Henry Armetta, Herman Bing, Frankie Darro, Bill Burrud and William "Billy" Benedict. It was released on October 21, 1935, by Universal Pictures.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Irene Hervey
Lady by Choice (1934)
Lady by Choice is a 1934 American romantic drama film released by Columbia Pictures starring Carole Lombard as a fan dancer and May Robson as a homeless drunk asked to pose as the dancer's mother for a publicity stunt, with unexpected consequences. Promoted as a follow-up to Frank Capra's 1933 hit Lady for a Day (1933), it resembles the earlier fil...
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Edward Van Sloan•Sybil Jason
Mills of the Gods (1934)
The Mills of the Gods is an American silent film. It was the first three-reel "feature" directed by Ralph Ince; production company Vitagraph entrusted him with this longer project after being impressed by his work on the two-reel Double Danger.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Bobby Breen
Straight Is the Way (1934)
Straight Is the Way is a 1934 American drama film directed by Paul Sloane, written by Bernard Schubert, and starring Franchot Tone, May Robson, Karen Morley, Gladys George, Nat Pendleton and Jack La Rue. It is based upon the stage play by Dana Burnet and George Abbott. It was released on August 10, 1934, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Harry Davenport
You Can't Buy Everything (1934)
You Can't Buy Everything is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Charles Reisner and Sandy Roth and starring May Robson, Jean Parker and Lewis Stone. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Working titles of the film were Rich Widow and Old Hannibal. According to Motion Picture Herald, the principal character of Hannah Bell was ...
Starring: Dead End Kids•Gloria Dickson•Margot Stevenson
Lady for a Day (1933)
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture...
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Lionel Barrymore•Mitzi Green
One Man's Journey (1933)
One Man's Journey is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film starring Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Eli Watt. The picture was based on the short story Failure written by Katharine Haviland-Taylor. It was remade by RKO as A Man to Remember (1938). The story tells of a small-town doctor working under difficult circumstances in a rural area somewhere in the Uni...
Starring: Bessie Love•Gloria Dickson•Flora Finch
Little Orphan Annie (1932)
Little Orphan Annie is a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Harrison Ford
The She-Wolf (1931)
The She-Wolf is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by James Flood and starring May Robson, James Hall, and Lawrence Gray. It is also known by the alternative title Mother's Millions.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Leatrice Joy
The Angel of Broadway (1927)
The Angel of Broadway was a 1927 American silent drama film produced by Cecil B. DeMille and distributed by Pathé Exchange. It was directed by Lois Weber and starred Leatrice Joy. The film is now considered lost.
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Phyllis Haver•Warren William
A Harp in Hock (1927)
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed by Renaud Hoffman, produced by DeMille Pictures, and distributed by Pathé Exchange. The film starred Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, and Bessie Love, and was based on the short story by Evelyn Campbell.
Starring: Victor Varconi•Gloria Dickson•Rudolph Schildkraut
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary (1927)
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary is a lost 1927 American silent comedy film starring veteran actress May Robson and released by Cecil B. DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC).
Starring: Gloria Dickson•Lawrence Gray•Joel McCrea